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Many of us are installing lots of Addins into Revit these days. Some addins, like Scan to BIM, create their own complete ribbon panel. This functionality could be re-appropriated into a solution to the “too many addins” problem.
I think it would be great to have a little widget or customization tool that allows an additional addins Ribbon to be created (eg Addins2), so that you can reduce the sometimes very congested “look” of the single Addins panel in Revit.
Jeremy notified me that the samples provide essentially this capability:
and I did get started on something, but I only got this far and don’t really have time to finish the job:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1dGdRkpk2beN3drNTFvemp1QnM/edit?usp=sharing
So if anyone out there wants to look into creating a nice and easy ribbon customization tool, let me know and I will definitely post about it.
Great little post by Gareth Spencer, showing that you can graphically filter unconnected nodes to allow for easier Structural Model validation:
via
Using Filters To Highlight Unconnected Nodes – WhitePaper – CADline Community
We use Google Drive a lot now, particularly Google Sheets. The power of a shared spreadsheet cannot be underestimated in the AEC world.
Now, imagine if you could directly export data from Revit to a Google Sheet, edit it, and then import the changes directly back to Revit. Imagine if you could share that spreadsheet to other team members who may not know anything about Revit, but who can modify and update schedules with ease? Yep, this just happened with Bimframe Connect… screenshots below.
Export from Revit to Google Drive
View and Edit on Google Sheets
Click import to bring the changes back
Changes are highlighted to show you what will be updated
Viewing the updated model in a Revit schedule
Download v1.0.0 at:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-I6xJbZzEKlMVFlRS1RN01VZVE&usp=sharing
Other links:
BIMFRAME community is here:
http://community.bimframe.com/
shop is here:
shop.bimframe.com
Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg8pgsW4iF8-SQBUq1ufVwg
Google Plus site:
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/115998378603849570073/+Bimframeab
As we all expected, with its 2014 version Sketchup is increasing its BIM capability, including object classification and IFC export.
Get it at:
Download SketchUp | SketchUp
Heads-up:
http://www.formfollowsperformance.com/2014/03/sketchup-goes-bim-with-ifc/
“Check out these post on the new version of SketchUp 2014:
http://www.bim-me-up.com/sketchup-goes-bim/
http://bimadvisor.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/sketchup-2014/”
Here are 3 video presentations from the BIM Day Out of particular interest:
Handling Point Cloud Data
Revit to Civil 3D
Tekla BIMsight:
via
http://www.bimdayout.com/perth2013/presentation/
You might be surprised at some of the cool samples that are included in the Revit SDK – which is likely already installed on your system. Here are a few notes on pathing that may assist:
Build Revit API Samples:
C:Revit 2014 SDKSamplesSDKSamples2014.sln
Copy these files
to
C:Program Files (x86)Reference AssembliesMicrosoftFramework.NETFrameworkv4.0
Build solution
Modify DLL path in:
C:Revit 2014 SDKSamplesRvtSamplesCSRvtSamples.addin
to
C:Revit 2014 SDKSamplesRvtSamplesCSRvtSamples.dll
Save the .addin to:
C:ProgramDataAutodeskRevitAddins2014
